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Tributes pour in for the Nightingale of India, Lata Mangeshkar, who died on Sunday at the age of 92. Her singing career spanned 70 years. Reporter Chhavi Sachdev reports from Mumbai on the singer's legacy. 

India was founded as a secular democracy. But more than six decades since the country's constitution laid out protections for minorities, Hindu nationalists have increasingly gone on the attack. Many have become emboldened by right-wing Hindus who are in power. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the government has often refused to condemn acts of violence against minorities. In fact Hindu leaders...

Over the past decade, Captagon, a stimulant drug, has become more and more popular in the Middle East. Its production saw a boost during the war in Syria and it's now thought to be one of the most popular drugs among affluent youths in the region. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Big companies around the world have promised to reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions by sometime before mid-century. But according to a new analysis of 25 corporate net zero targets from companies including Ikea, Google and Amazon, the math doesn't add up for many of these pledges. Host Marco Werman has more. 

Since the Russia-Ukraine conflict began in 2014, Russia has tried to exploit and pressure Ukraine on the battlefield and also in cyberspace. Over the past eight years, Ukraine has bolstered its cyberdefense capabilities, however, it has still suffered from severe cyberattacks. The World's Daniel Ofman reports from Kyiv.

Ottawa’s mayor has declared a state of emergency, calling ongoing truckers' protests against COVID-19 restrictions "completely out of control.” The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Stephanie Carvin, Ottawa resident and former national security analyst for the Canadian government, about how officials hope to tap down the protests and whether coercion might be counterproductive.

Thousands demonstrated in major cities across Brazil this weekend, decrying the fatal beating of a Congolese immigrant that was captured on a security camera. The Brazilian government has yet to speak out about the killing, but protestors say the death of Moise Kabagambe is part of a larger pattern of racial violence. Reporter Michael Fox has the story.

Senegalese soccer fans had a lot celebrate this past weekend. The country's national team beat Egypt in a penalty shootout at the Africa Cup of Nations. The final match this year was postponed six months because of the pandemic. But that just made Senegal's first-ever Africa Cup final victory even sweeter, as host Marco Werman explains.

The Beijing Winter Olympics got off to a fiery start over the weekend, with gold medals, history-making tricks, and a few major slips by favorite athletes. Off the ice, the IOC also made news by announcing a meeting with Peng Shuai. The World's Bianca Hillier shares the details with host Marco Werman.

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz are in Washington and Moscow respectively for diplomatic efforts at resolving the crisis over Ukraine. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Alexandra de Hoop Scheffer, a director of research for transatlantic Security at the German Marshall Fund, about how far diplomacy can go in Ukraine. 

Author Dan Saladino has traveled to remote corners of the world to try to understand why our modern diet is less varied than ever. Throughout history, humans have dined on 6,000 species of plants. Now most of us have whittled our diet down to just nine. Saladino and The World’s Marco Werman discuss why we need to pay more attention to diversifying the world’s food supply.

On a snowy February Saturday morning in the 1960s, Florence Rappaport fed her two youngest kids ice cream for breakfast to stop them complaining about being bored. Every year after, the Rappaport family celebrated Ice Cream for Breakfast Day on the first Saturday in February. Over the years, the ritual has morphed from a silly family tradition to a holiday observed all over the world. The World's...

Back in 2008 when Beijing held the Summer Games, the big environmental worry was smog. Athletes were concerned about breathing it in while competing. Since then, China has improved air quality. Now at the Winter Games, the big worry is about snow, and the environmental impact of making lots of it. Alongside that specific worry is an increased concern about the impact of the Games on climate change...

The current far-right government in Poland has legally empowered a new vision of Holocaust history: Instead of emphasizing the millions of European Jews who died there, the approach is toward "telling all sides" and emphasizing the bravery and suffering of non-Jewish Poles. Rebecca Rosman reports from Warsaw on the chilling effect of government mandates on Polish Holocaust scholarship.

The Biden administration has decided to extend Trump-era tariffs on solar panel imports. While these tariffs apply to all countries, China is the target. The debate over these tariffs have split the US solar industry, with some supporting and some against. Supporters of the tariffs say they are needed if the US wants to stay competitive, and help to undermine China's industry which uses forced lab...

Election Day is six months away in Kenya, and politics is almost all that's on the news there. Campaigning is ramping up, but that energy hasn't translated to potential voters yet. In fact, election officials are confronting a big problem: voter apathy. The World's Halima Gikandi reports from the capital, Nairobi.

Truckers in Alberta, Canada, are protesting COVID-19 mandates. They have blocked one of the busiest ports of entry between the US and Canada. Motorists have been stuck for days. Meanwhile, the truckers continue their blockade in Ottawa, stalling traffic. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he won't back down. The World's Carol Hills speaks to reporter Anita Elash about the rising stakes in the...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday. The meeting was a show of solidarity between the two countries as both are in standoff with Western nations over Ukraine and Taiwan. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Timothy Frye, professor of post-Soviet foreign policy at Columbia University, about the strength and complexities of the Chinese-Russian relationship.

On Friday in Beijing, Olympians took part in the parade of athletes at the opening ceremony of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The World's Bianca Hillier talks to host Carol Hills about the ceremony highlights and what to look forward to as the Games begin.

On the 60th anniversary of the US trade embargo on Cuba, we hear how Cuban musicians have not sat still awaiting new American audiences. Artists may not have US listeners in their immediate market, but they are still innovating and being heard in other parts of the world.

Scholars have long sought to understand the meaning of 200 enigmatic artifacts found in tombs in Peru. The artifacts consist of human vertebrae threaded on sticks. Archeologist Jacob Bongers from the University of East Anglia has done an analysis of the vertebrae and tells The World’s host Marco Werman that the objects are likely an Indigenous response to the looting of burial grounds by Spanish c...

The “China Initiative” was a centerpiece of former US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy agenda for years. Headed by the US Department of Justice, the program was meant to focus on prosecuting cases of economic espionage and national security. However, in reality, the initiative lacked focus, and seemed particularly keen on targeting academics with a connection to China. One of those academic...

Meet the Go_A band from Kyiv. It consists of Kateryna Pavlenko on vocals and Taras Shevchenko, the founder, who plays keyboard and percussion. The band represented Ukraine last year at  Eurovision. We'll hear what's on their minds right now, and a little of their music, too, in a piece produced by The World's Daniel Ofman.

Many Polish historians worry the current government is trying to cover up the country's role in the Holocaust. New museum exhibits are focusing on the heroism of non-Jewish Poles, instead of the atrocities in which Polish people were complicit. Rebecca Rosman reports from Poland on how historians and the current government are potentially rewriting history.

A Tennessee county school board agreed to remove Art Spiegelman's book “Maus” from its eighth-grade curriculum for its “rough, objectionable language” and "unnecessary use of profanity and nudity and its depiction of violence and suicide.” The Pulitzer prize-winning graphic novel tells the story of Spiegelman's parents in the Holocaust, depicting Jewish people as mice and Nazis as cats. Pulitzer P...